Remove all religious symbols from educations centers: Hindutva group issue ‘final warning’ to Christians in Assam
Dispur: A right-wing Hindu group has threatened top Christian educational institutions across BJP-ruled India’s Assam state, demanding them to remove churches and avoid all religious symbols and costumes within their premises.
According to Kashmir Media Service, the latest warning was issued by Hindutva group, Sanmilita Sanatan Samaj through posters, stuck on the premises of a number of such Christian institutions. These Christian learning centers were asked to remove churches from within their school premises, along with all other religious symbols and statues.
The posters, printed by the group in Assamese, have said, “This is the final warning to stop using the school as a religious institution…stop anti-Bharat and unconstitutional activities or else…”.
The posters also said, “Christian missionary educational institutions should stop ignoring the proposed New Education Policy (of the Narendra Modi government) and show respect to the Indian Parliament.”
Earlier, on February 18, authorities at the well-known Carmel School in Jorhat approached the local police after spotting such a poster on its boundary wall. “The application, written by school principal Sister Rose Fatima, said that her institution had been very accommodating and respectful towards people of every religion and culture and maintained an atmosphere of peace and tranquility” reported The Telegraph.
Soon, the posters were spotted at the Don Bosco Boys School and Saint Mary’s School in Guwahati and other Christian schools in Barpeta, Dibrugarh and Sivasagar towns. Reportedly, the poster campaign by the Guwahati-based outfit begun after it asked Christian missionary-run schools on February 7 to remove all religious symbols and statues from their premises within 15 days. A similar diktat was issued by another group, Kutumba Suraksha Parishad, recently.
